superlunaryadj.n.

1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) i. ii. 8 Our sense, which thence receiueth Light, and there in the æthereall region seeth new Starres and superlunarie Comets.

1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 7 Iupiter..hath before a frequent convocation of the superlunary Peers..recanted.

1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. E4 This superlunary instance does not serve in the least to confirme his Argument that he makes against the Authors words.

1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 78 Genius, a Dæmon,..a Superlunary Being, whom he supposes to have a Language proper to their own Kind.

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 39 Other Ambition than of crowns in Air, And superlunary Felicities.

1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace v, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 16/1 The foolish Cardinal, since no sublunary means..will serve, has taken to the superlunary.

1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xv. 315 As for her superlunary sphere, it was in fragments.

1916 Jewish Q. Rev. 6 522 The pre-Newtonian distinction between the natural sublunary world and the divine superlunary world.

1959 B. Blackstone Consecrated Urn ii. ix. 159 The superlunary realm of ether invoked at the beginning of this third book.

2002 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 92 32 The metaphysical concept of universally valid ‘laws of nature’ promulgated by superlunary divinity.

1649 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 34 In Sublunaries there is a quality that holds a paritie to the impression of Superlunaries [L. in sublunaribus coelorum qualitatem aemulam].

1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 80 They were not Superlunaries (as Mr. Chishull supposes).

1967 A. J. Reines tr. I. Abrabanel in Hebrew Union Coll. Ann. 187 The voice is attributed to a speaker who is a person, an angel, or God, and to no other existent either of the superlunaries or the sublunaries because the imagination can only attribute its apprehensions to those three agents that emanate effluence upon it.